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Grattan Flood - A History of Irish Music, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 69

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Browne and Nolan Ltd, Dublin 1913
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Grattan Flood - A History of Irish Music
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1
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HISTORY OF IRISH MUSIC.ODuibhir, of the Glen of Aherlow, Co. Tipperary, livingin 1584, who figures in the above Presentment, asquoted in the Carew MS., No. 627. The clearing of theforests alluded to in this grand old song began as early.as the fifteenth century, and was well nigh completedby the Undertakers under Elizabeth, who wereanxious to make all the ready money they could, fearingthat the Irish would soon dispossess them. Moreover,the very construction of the air seems to point to thesecond half of the sixteenth century, rather than themiddle of the seventeenth century.In the list of pardons issued in 1584 are the names ofMorgan the piper (who made the Indenture with SirHenry Sydney in 1570) and Alexander the piper, bothof The Park, near Gorey, Co. Wexford, on Aprilioth; Donal MacKeogh, of Co. Carlow, rhymer, onApril 28th; Russell MacRussell, of Ballinacarrig, Co.Cork, hdr er, on June 4th; and John Piers, chiefmusician and piper to Sir Gerald Fitzgerald, ofDromana, Co. Waterford, on July 13th.The viceroyalty of Sir John Perrott (a natural son ofHenry VIII.), who was sworn in on June 2 1st, 1584,proved fairly beneficial to Ireland; and he held aParliament at Dublin, on April 26th, 1585, in which astatute was passed regarding costume, and anotheragainst sorcery and witchcraft. This Deputy orderedstocks to be made for punishing idle persons, spies,bards, gamesters, etc.Among the fiants of Elizabeth, the pardons for theyear 1585 include :William MacCruddan or Creedan,harper and yeoman, on February 26th; MahonOHeffernan, rhymer, Eneas roe OHeffernan, rhymer, andIRIS h MUSIC IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 123Donogh OCasey, piper, on May 14th; Ulick OMael-conry, of Clonea, Co. Roscommon, gentlein .n andrhymer, Gillananeave caoch (the blind), of Clonpiuckane,rhymer, and Paudheen oge OMulconry, rhymer, onJune 1st; Melaghlin roe OBrennan, of Co. alway,harper, on June z 7 th; Murtogh MacRory OHeffernan,of Derrycloney, rhymer, Donogh MacCormac,. of Co.Limerick, piper, and Conor OHeffernan, of same,rhymer, on July 8th.The pardons granted during the year 1586 includeGillaglass OShallow, harper, on May 2 9 th; DermotMacGrath, of Hospital, Co. Limerick, harper, on May3 1st; and Flann MacEneas oge MacGrath, of Garristown,Co. Tipperary, rhymer, on September 20th. This is therenowned bard, Flann Magrath, who wrote a fineelegy on Thomas, Earl of Ormonde, published byODonovan in 1850, from the MS. of John Murphy, ofCarrignavar, Co. Cork, dated 1726. ODonovan onlyknew of Magraths existence by the fact of his namebeing signed to some poems, about the year i586; butthe State Paper entry is an interesting addition to ourscant knowledge of this Irish bard.Notwithstanding all that Perrott had done for theEnglish interest in Ireland from 1584 to 1587, hewas a marked man, owing to the machinations ofLoftus, Wallop, Bingham, Fenton, and Bagnall. Oneof the accusations against him was a leniency towardsbards, minstrels, and others who had sounded thepraises of the dispossessed Irish princes and nobles.Accordingly, an order was issued on March 20th, 1588,to John Kiernan, Seneschal of MacKiernans Country(County Cavan), to prosecute, banish, and punish by
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69
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Grattan Flood, Wm. H.
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